Wikileaks Founder Arrested, Bail Denied

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken on the persona of someone seeking truth and justice by printing confidential and classified government documents. Although I’ve tried to read as many articles as I can in the press about Wikileaks, I don’t seem to see much discussion about the fact that the U.S. government has the ability to classify documents. Hacking a computer or otherwise publishing classified documents should be perceived as a problem to most Americans. Just like we value freedom of speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, we also value the right to form a military and protect the country. The fact that there might be some good that results increased transparency of the U.S. government is not the point when discussing Wikileak’s publishing classified documents.

I was not surprised to see that Mr. Assange was arrested. I was surprised, however, to see it had nothing to do with publishing classified documents. He was arrested in London after surrendering to police as part of a sex-crimes investigation.

Mr. Assange surrendered to British police on a warrant issued by Sweden in connection with accusations of rape and sexual molestation. He was denied bail at a court hearing following his arrest in the U.K. early Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 on an international warrant related to sexual-assault allegations in Sweden.